This year web 2.0 summit focus on key point of control

How the clashes between the giants and dwarves, coexisting and fighting for control in the web 2.0 world. Companies consolidating for power and increasing the footprints. The theme for this year summit on the point of control certainly will help the community learn how this controls are working and how it will shape the future.

So how does it help? A map was created.
The  first iteration map that could be found at this link below:-
http://map.web2summit.com

Hope to learn alot more soon.

Afraid of loosing...

To understand the design, sometime we have to go back to some human fundamentals...

I just learn an interesting view on human perspective on loss aversion which I hope to record here. 
Based on given amount and head or tail challenge.


Case 1:
Given $1000

Take a risk:  [ Head get $1000 more, Tail loose and get $0]
Play it safe : [ Get $500 more no matter what ]


Case 2:
Given $2000

Take a risk:  [ Head loose $0 , Tail loose $1000]
Play it safe : [ Loose $500 no matter what ]


It was understood even in human and some primates study, both will more preferably choose to play it safe in case 1, but when the scenario is changed in case 2, more will take the risk option. The interesting point to observe here is that in both cases, playing it safe will make one person still have $1500. However, the relative view of human mind chooses bases on the perception where it is called risk loss aversion

Interestingly, that how our finance/economy is geared up to capitalize on this psychological aspect of human  behaviors.

A quick blog on LTO tapes roadmap and specs ( Photocourtesy of LTO Ultrium owners)

android is learning to run

Just like a baby, after 18 months or so, Android OS has started to show that is able to run. If cupcakes was liken to a baby learning to walk, Froyo will likely be it learning to run. Infact it is already showing some strength against the iphone OS prior froyo release.

Here is the list of milestone to date on android OS.
20080923 - Android 1.0 [1st release]
20090309 - Android 1.1 [2nd release]

20090430 - Android 1.5 [cupcake]
20090915 - Android 1.6 [donut]
20091026 - Android 2.0 [eclair]
20100112 - Android 2.1 [flan]
20100520 - Android 2.2 [froyo]
TBA         - Android 3.0 [gingerbread]


 

*picture courtesy of web resources*

Mathematica & Wolfram Alpha

Been busy quite lately with works piling and planning for some overseas work. I have came across something useful today. It a site called wolfram alpha. They even have cool mathematical and computational tools now ver 7.0 mathematica.

Well wolfram alpha is about making computational mathematical online and it is really cool. wonder if smartphone is allow at school or exam.. I dont have to remember all those differential equations steps if that allow ...

http://www.wolframalpha.com

AHAH - Asynchronous HTML over HTTP

AHAH is a simpler version of AJAX.  AJAX uses the XML file while in AHAH, it uses XHTML
In AHAH you can display external XHTML pages inside your HTML page as the browser are already equipped to handle them.

In AJAX, developer actually need to write code that can parse the XML, extract data and show result.

Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture

I am excited to be going for a 3 day workshop by Oracle on the following week. At present I only aware of Oracle Maximum Availabilty Architecture comprising of the 4 parts:-

• Real Application Cluster(RAC)
• This is to protect for any DB server failure
• Automatic Storage Management(ASM)
• This is to protect from DB Storage failure
• Flashback
• This is to perform a quick undo on user or admin errors.
• Data Guard
• This is for the automated failover of DB system to standby DB site.

I do wonder if the Change Assurance Feature part of this architecture. I hope to learn more and how the MAA is integrated, deployed and what is the best practices.